SmolVLM-256M and SmolVLM-500M are available on the web as well as for download from Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 license, meaning they can be used without restrictions.

Hugging Face has introduced two new models in its SmolVLM series, which it claims are the smallest Vision Language Models (VLMs) to date. The models, SmolVLM-256M and SmolVLM-500M, are designed to ...

Hugging Face co-founder and chief science officer Thomas Wolf thinks that AI today isn't capable of figuring out novel ...

IT researchers have discovered malicious ML models on the Hugging Face AI development platform. Attackers could use them to infiltrate commands. IT researchers have discovered maliciously ...

Leading the list of announcements is a new partnership with Hugging Face Inc., the world’s largest repository of open-source ...

AI dev platform Hugging Face has partnered with third-party cloud vendors, including SambaNova, to launch Inference Providers, a feature designed to make it easier for devs on Hugging Face to run ...

Hugging Face's new FastRTC library enables Python developers to build real-time voice and video AI applications in just a few lines of code.

Now, 50,000 organizations, including Google and Microsoft, store models and data sets on Hugging Face. The company positions itself as the industry's Switzerland, a neutral platform available to ...

A group of developers at AI dev platform Hugging Face, including Thomas Wolf, the company's co-founder and chief scientist, say they've built an "open" version of OpenAI's deep research tool.